Thursday, January 19, 2006

Information and Help Network for the Bird Flu

I received this email from another group that I work with, and I thought that since so many are concerned about a link between the Kurdish areas and the bird flu (and probably would like to help) I thought that I would pass it along:

From Avian Flu Help Team

Dear Editors/Admins,

Please accept our apologies for the group mailing.

You have all been doing a noble effort in collecting informationonline about Avian Flu. As you can see there are many scatteredresources available right now to find scientific data, information,news and other tidbits. This mail is an effort to invite you alltogether to collaborate together on one effort so that we can put ourcollective minds and hands together in one "Mega" CollaBlog/CollaWiki.

At this point we are in contact with an international network ofvolunteers including India, the Middle East, USA, and several Europeancountries. We have begun work on an H5N1 disaster-response webinformation delivery system. We have developed a diverse volunteercorps of online writers, "bloggers", wiki admins, and now wish totake these efforts to a higher level.

We expect you realize the tremendous value that such a collaborationcould have, both in terms of scientific achievement, humanitarianconcerns, and international relations.

With the common goal of helping the affected and informing the generalpublic about Avian Flu, we would like to start the discussions amongthe various admins of major Avian Flu websites (Blogs, Wiki &Informational Sites), that is you, about coming together on this noblecause. We can then work out the logistics on how, when, where and whoof this effort.